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  1. Re:Search is still relevant... on The End of Free · · Score: 1

    The one your on right not doesn't have one, for instance. It's much easier to use an RSS reader than it is to browse slashdot on a mobile device.

    Mobile websites are actually quite rare in my experience.

  2. Re:Let the rationalizations begin on Has Any Creative Work Failed Because of Piracy? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And I work in residential construction. I have apprenticed and studied for years to gain the skills I employ but I don't get to collect a royalty check every time someone uses a door I installed...

    I support the artists I listen to by buying branded merchandise and by paying to see them perform. I don't pay them for the recordings I keep on my mp3 player.

  3. Re:Market Penetration on Is PC Gaming Set For a Comeback? · · Score: 1

    You would be surprised. My friend fried his video card once and played wow with integrated intel video for several days. It wasn't pretty, but it worked.

  4. Re:Indeed on A Composer's-Eye View of the Copyright Wars · · Score: 3, Informative

    The contract you enter into when using those requires an adult. Minors cannot enter into a binding legal contract in the US.

  5. Re:An actual patent on MS Design Lets You Put Batteries In Any Way You Want · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't. You would have to have an incredibly bad mental handicap to not be able to put batteries in a device correctly.

    Really? You've never tried to load new batteries into a device in the dark before?

  6. Re:This sounds "half baked" on Microwave Pain Ray Keeps Frost From Killing Crops · · Score: 1

    True, but if they are using this it's to defend against frost. How many flying insects and microbes are there going to be out and about in freezing temperatures that wont already be dead?

  7. Re:They -buried- the reports? on 3D Displays May Be Hazardous To Young Children · · Score: 1

    Cost of Recall > Cost of settlements/fines

    Simple. If you expect a corporation to do anything else, you are very naive.

  8. Re:Time for hacker bounty hunter! on Turning Attackers' Tools Against Them · · Score: 1

    I think you mean "accept". *wooosh*

    dang it...

  9. Re:Huh. on HTC Android Smartphone Stores Browsing Screenshots · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ironically I recall this reaction happening when the iPhone had the same feature awhile back. It's just the nature of visual bookmarks.

    Next up, Google Chrome and Opera keep thumbnail screenshots of the websites you visit!

  10. Re:Want to buy on Reproducing an Ancient New World Beer · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the info, looks like I have a reason to finally get twitter.

  11. Re:I'm sorry but... on Pedestrian Follows Google Map, Gets Run Over, Sues · · Score: 4, Funny

    See, thats why blackberry is great. An iPhone wouldn't get signal in the middle of the Pacific.

  12. Re:Want to buy on Reproducing an Ancient New World Beer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I followed a few links and discovered Dogfish Head originally published this beer in June of 2008. Its called "Theobroma".

    http://www.dogfish.com/brews-spirits/the-brews/occassional-rarities/theobroma.htm

    The blog article in question was just written in May, so I'm assuming he either got an old bottle or the brewers did another production run. I'm going to ask my local dogfish head distributor about it next time I go in and hopefully he can track some down for me.

  13. Re:Anybody wanna bet on Installing Android 2.2 "Froyo" On the Nexus One · · Score: 1

    I can appreciate your sentiment but I feel I have to pick my battles. Sprint has incredible plans and great service everywhere I go, not to mention the Evo 4G is incredible. Why toss all that away when Sprint could really care less?

  14. Re:Anybody wanna bet on Installing Android 2.2 "Froyo" On the Nexus One · · Score: 1

    If its anything like Sprints HTC Hero, it will be trivially easy for you to root the phone and restore that functionality. If you can copy paste commands into a command prompt, you can root your phone.

  15. Re:Article sucks on Google Outlines Feature Set For Android 2.2 · · Score: 1

    The n900 has flash 9.4 support. Android 2.2 supports 10.1

    Despite this fact, my HTC Hero(thank you sprint, you're wonderful) has had flash support since I bought it last year.

    http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/articles/htchero.html

  16. Re:The main danger is on Scientists Question Safety of New Airport Scanners · · Score: 1

    Yes, confiscate the purple translucent toy gun from the three year old in front of me but let me walk in with a metal ink pen in my pocket. Very intelligent.

  17. In other news on Using Augmented Reality To Treat Cockroach Phobia · · Score: 1

    Virtual reality is virtually real.

    On topic though, that image alone is enough to make me slightly uncomfortable.

  18. Re:1984 on Texas Schools Board Rewriting US History · · Score: 1

    I think the parent is simply talking about government in general.

    Your argument is fallacious. Anything can be made to sound absurd when taken to such lengths.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum

  19. Re:Fuel economy on Inventor Demonstrates Infinitely Variable Transmission · · Score: 1

    You're missing my point. If I drove the car I already had an additional ten years, it would be less costly to me and the environment even though it used more gas.

    If the government really cared about oil and pollution, they could have saved just as much by forcing people to turn off their engine while idling in drive-through lines and forcing people to keep their tires inflated properly.

  20. Re:Alternative Limewire network coming online... on LimeWire Likely To Shut Down Soon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Its like what I started doing when I was a teenager. My summer job was mowing lawns, so I started offering a bonus service to fertilize it in the spring for a small amount. Just about everyone that took that service switched from 10 day mowing to weekly mowing cause the grass grew faster.

    I made a good chunk of change that year.

  21. Alternative Limewire network coming online... on LimeWire Likely To Shut Down Soon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...in 3, 2, 1

  22. Re:This Is Good For IE 9 on AMD's Fusion CPU + GPU Will Ship This Year · · Score: 1

    Seeing as AMD is in both markets, I'm sure they will have no issue working along side discrete graphics.

  23. Re:OK, they're integrated "properly", but... on AMD's Fusion CPU + GPU Will Ship This Year · · Score: 5, Informative

    I recently went from an older AMD dual core to a Phenom II. With the exact same board and hardware, my memory performance increased by about 20% thanks to the independent memory controllers.

    AMD also makes strikingly capable on-board graphics, so this will likely rule out the need for on-board or discrete video in the average person's computer. Cheaper/simpler motherboards and hopefully better integration of GPGPU functionality for massively parallel computational tasks.

  24. Re:Ha! It's worse in Canada on Developer-Friendly Banks? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ironically in the security guide section it lists getting software updates as key to your computer's security.

  25. Re:What this really means is... on Inventor Demonstrates Infinitely Variable Transmission · · Score: 1

    There is still a hard limit of available torque to drive the transmission, so no.